A Kentucky man and his transgender wife sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging that they endured sustained discrimination and harassment during a year as co-workers at the mammoth online retailer´s warehouse in northern Kentucky. A lawyer working with the couple said the case is notable in part because Amazon, one of the nation´s largest corporations, has a record of strongly supporting gay and transgender rights. The lawsuit , filed in U.S. District Court in Covington, Kentucky, alleges that Dane Lane and Allegra Schawe-Lane were targeted with threats, slurs and sexual harassment by numerous colleagues at their shipping facility. Their complaints to

Comments:Someone is starting to notice these ´progressive´ companies have deep pockets. Ka-Ching.

They quit their jobs at Amazon 2 years ago, and now the pain is so great that they´re suing. There will be thousands of these suits, as progressives transfer money from anyone with deep pockets to anyone in one of their fav sub-groups. Soon, it will be illegal to even talk to your co-workers except about certain approved topics, and then, only in certain approved ways.

It used to be the height of embarrassment to pick up a "chick" at the club, take her home, have a good time and then find out she´s a he. Or get caught doing the deed in a car ala Eddie Murphy. Now these losers marry them. Pathetic.

So one guy claims he likes to take his pole upstream in pursuit of brown trout with another guy that wants to be Klinger.Somehow the people at Amazon know this, rather than he being an obnoxious reprobate that incessantly talks about his sex life in public, so they do something other than give him a substantial raise and adoration.Just what is wrong with Amazon?This guy is obviously the kind of employee they can´t afford to lose.

Corporations may have official policies but corporations are made up of people. You and I might think this situation is silly, sickening, hilarious, sad or wrong but in Obamaworld it is we who are the misfits. I just wish Barry and the arm-toned Mooch would come out of their closet and explain why they campaigned for LGBTQODLX rights for eight years if they are an unaltered heterosexual couple and tell us where the kids came from.

Protesters toppled a Confederate monument in Durham, N.C. on Monday night. Video posted to Twitter shows protestors surrounding the statue and chanting "No KKK! No fascists! USA" as several protestors appear to pull down the statue with a rope. WNCN reports the statue was dedicated in Durham in 1924 and was located in front of a local government building. The statue represented a soldier who fought in the Civil War and an inscription on the front read "The Confederate States of America." One organizer of the protest told WNCN that toppling the statue was in response to the violence at a white supremacist

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CNN severed ties with Jeffrey Lord on Thursday, hours after he ignited controversy by tweeting the words "Sieg Heil!" at a prominent liberal activist. "Nazi salutes are indefensible," a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. "Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network." Lord said his tweet was misunderstood. He said he was mocking fascists, not acting like one. "I love CNN, but I feel they are caving to bullies here," he said in a telephone interview shortly after the network´s decision was announced. Lord said his contract was set to expire at the end of the year. He said

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Fox News viewers were livid after Dana Perino—long suspected to be someone, like Megyn Kelly, who cares more about the opinions of elites in New York and D.C. than Fox News’ viewers—smeared Breitbart News as a site for Nazis on Monday. It seems like the vapid Fox News host knows less about Breitbart News and the alt-right/new right than the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is saying quite a lot. Perino lashed out at President Donald Trump on The Five for allowing Nazis and the alt-right to seek “safe harbor under his wing” before adding that “the